Whirling toy.



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ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES Patented October 4, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

WHIRLING TOY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 771,705, dated October4, 1904.

Application filed October 10, 1903.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL Brus'row, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Topeka, in the county of Shawnee and State of Kansas,haveinvented anew and Improved Whiriing Toy, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

Thisinvention relates to improvements in toys adapted to be rotated bywind or air pressure, an object being to provide a toy of this characterthat will be simple in construction and cheap and that by rapidlyrotating by wind-pressure or by pressure of air when drawn through thesame will afford amusement and will also be adapted for advertisingpurposes.

While Ihave styled the device as a toy, it is practically a windmill.

I will describe a whirling toy embodying my invention and then point outthe novel features in the appended claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, forming apart ofthis specification, in which the figure is a side elevation of awhirling toy embodying my invention with a portion of the body brokenaway to more clearly show the interior parts.

The device comprises a conical or tapered body 1 of paper or other lightand thin material, and at the base edge of the body there are vanes 2,which extend outward With relation to the axis of the body and havetheir fiat surfaces or planes circumferentially of -the body arranged atan acute angle transversely of the axis of the body. To stiffen thebody, I secure to the inner side thereof a band 3 of stiff paper or thelike.

Secured in the apex or pointof the body is a block 4 of light wood orother suitable material, and this block is perforated to receive aswiveled rod 5, which at its inner end has a collar 6, against which theunder or inner side of the block A engages. At its outer end the rod 5is provided with an eye 7 for connec- Serial No. 176,525. (No model.)

tion with a cord 8, With a rod 9.

While I have shown the body of the device as conical. it is to beunderstood that it may be made angular in its circumference, providing,of course, that the wall be tapered.

In the operation when the device is held in a Wind it will be forcedoutward, substantially as shown in the dotted lines in the drawing, andthe wind passing along the outer side of the body will impinge againstthe vanes 2, causing the body to rapidly rotate. The shape of the bodycauses the wind-pressure to be equally distributed around the axis ofthe instrument. When there is little or no Wind, the device may becaused to rotate by drawing it through the air, and when used in a Windthe cord 8 will permit the device to swing around to present its pointor apex to the wind.

It will be understood that an instrument of the character described mustbe light enough to permit the wind to lift it to a horizontal position,and the cone-shaped body not only furnishes the necessary surface tocatch and direct the air, but at the same time it gives the requiredstrength with little weight.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent A whirling toy comprising a tapered body having vanesaround its base edge, the said vanes being extendedoutward with relationto the axis of the body and having their flat surfaces or planes,circumferentially of the body, arranged at an acute angle transverselyof the axis of the body, and a cord attached to the apex of the body.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

' SAMUEL BRISTOVV.

Witnesses:

W. C. McCLAIN, C. A, MOORE.

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